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Zhihao Jiang Receives Techcon 2014 Best In Session Award

September 14, 2014

Zhihao Jiang won the Best in Session Award for the System Design Tools session at SRC’s TECHCON in Austin, Texas, where he represented Penn’s TerraSwarm efforts. He presented the paper titled “Integrated Functional and Formal Modeling for Closed-loop Evaluation of Medical Device Software”.

Toyota Gift Will Support Penn Research on Automotive Electronic and Computer Systems

July 21, 2014

The University of Pennsylvania’s PRECISE Center has received a substantial financial gift from the Toyota InfoTechnology Center. Toyota-ITC is interested in promoting the PRECISE Center’s efforts on safety algorithms for self-driving cars, remote automotive diagnostics, resilient control of autonomous vehicles and electric vehicle architectures.

"With processing power and internet connectivity increasing, people don’t just learn how to use the latest in technology—that technology actually learns right back.

Your phone knows where you are, so it provides movie times and restaurant recommendations for places in walking distance. Your thermostat knows what time you get home and what temperature you’d like your house to be when you get there. Your TV has your favorite shows recorded because it knows what you like. And all of these devices can now talk to one another to learn even more about their users."

The goal of the paper is how to protect cyber-attacks to cars loaded with car tech. For example, it is known that you can spoof GPS signals (and other sensors) to misguide cars/drones/boats. The paper, part of the DARPA HACMS project at PRECISE, develops methods for detecting such attacks on cars. The methods have been used in real robots and cars and we have videos for both.